Quick, call the production team at Primeval! Maybe they can work this one in for series three… the missing crocodile link.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian paleontologists said on Thursday they had found the fossil of a new species of prehistoric predator that represented a “missing link†to modern-day crocodiles.
The well-preserved fossil of Montealtosuchus arrudacamposi, a medium-sized lizard-like predator measuring about 5 1/2 feet (1.7 meters) from head to tail, dates back about 80 million years to the Late Cretaceous period.
From Reuters => Brazil finds fossil of missing link to crocodile | Reuters
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